# Less Frequent Email Options for Less-active accounts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/less-frequent-email-options-for-less-active-accounts/27659
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [16 april 2015 om 17:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/less-frequent-email-options-for-less-active-accounts/27659 "2015-04-16T17:17:05Z")
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### Author: ![BCHK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/bchk/32/3268_2.png) [@BCHK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BCHK)
#### Post date: [7 juni 2016 om 16:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/less-frequent-email-options-for-less-active-accounts/27659/22 "2016-06-07T16:37:06Z")

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> [@sebastianh](#):
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> but what is the alternative?

Probably some sort of account / email aging system that decreases email frequency based on the clicks received on them and frequency of email logins.

Personally - I’d also love to have a backup plugin of SMS contact to users using Twilio or something similar so we have a more efficient means of pulling people back to the forums.

> [@Twilio - for SMS notifications to users - Anyone Else Interested?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/twilio-for-sms-notifications-to-users-anyone-else-interested/44132):
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> Continuing the discussion from [Plugin to send 'private' SMS or Instant Messages from Categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-to-send-private-sms-or-instant-messages-from-categories/42621/5): Has anyone tried this yet? I’m really interested in this as a way to improve user engagement in our forums. I am very concerned about the fact that the vast majority of our users are on Gmail (which filters our forum notifications into the rarely-reviewed bucket of “forum” messages,and Most of our users are in their 20s and so tend to use texting over email, - so I don’t think most of our users e…

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